{"id":540988,"date":"2021-05-26T07:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540988"},"modified":"2021-05-26T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:50:58","slug":"children-assigned-to-write-love-poems-to-coronavirus-vaccine-as-teachers-union-pushes-for-continued-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/children-assigned-to-write-love-poems-to-coronavirus-vaccine-as-teachers-union-pushes-for-continued-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Assigned To Write Love Poems To Coronavirus Vaccine As Teachers Union Pushes For Continued Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchildren-assigned-to-write-love-poems-to-coronavirus-vaccine-as-teachers-union-pushes-for-continued-restrictions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1222148080-school-coronavirus-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Some schoolchildren are being instructed to write poems fawning over the coronavirus vaccine, which they are not eligible to receive but which teachers unions have claimed, without evidence, is necessary before school can return to normal.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGlobal Vaccine Poem\u201d project asks children and adults alike to \u201cRead the model poem \u2018Dear Vaccine\u2019 written by Naomi Shihab Nye, then choose a prompt to respond to. Add a few lines of your words. Don\u2019t worry about rhyming, don\u2019t worry about grammar or spelling. Simply share your thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.7032967032967\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was assigned in a 5th grade classroom in Massachusetts. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fully vaxxed and still I ask, what the hell is this? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I8HBzIYElH\">pic.twitter.com\/I8HBzIYElH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erika Sanzi (@esanzi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esanzi\/status\/1396856118220034049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nye\u2019s poem reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>Save us, dear vaccine.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Children in kindergarten.<\/em><br \/><em>So many voices, in chorus.<\/em><br \/><em>Give us our world again!<\/em><br \/><em>Tiny gleaming vials,<\/em><br \/><em>enter our cities and towns<\/em><br \/><em>shining your light.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2026<\/em><br \/><em>It\u2019s a quick prick in the arm<\/em><br \/><em>You\u2019ll barely notice it<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2026<\/em><br \/><em>Face-to-face conversation<\/em><br \/><em>someday soon?<\/em>&nbsp;<em>\u2026<\/em><br \/><em>Vaccine, please make the air clean!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/services.aap.org\/en\/pages\/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections\/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report\">American Academy of Pediatrics<\/a>, \u201cChildren were 0.00%-0.20% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 9 states reported zero child deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the American Federation of Teachers union tweeted, \u201cIn elementrary [sic] schools, until we have the vaccines, it seems like unfortuantely [sic] we still [sic] going to have to keep wearing our masks and keep social distancing because we don\u2019t want outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.774468085106\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;In elementrary schools, until we have the vaccines, it seems like unfortuantely we still going to have to keep wearing our masks and keep social distancing because we don&#8217;t want outbreaks.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rweingarten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFT (@AFTunion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFTunion\/status\/1395858457669029888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since schools do not have the room to fit all children while socially distancing, that could mean no five days a week of elementary school even next schoolyear, should the union have its way. The vaccine is only approved for those 12 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers have repeatedly shifted the goalposts when it comes to reopening schools, even though the director of the CDC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2021\/t0212-cdc-update-covid-19.html\">said<\/a> that schools can reopen safely without even teachers being vaccinated, and that teachers are at higher risk of getting coronavirus outside of school than in it.<\/p>\n<p>Nye is the \u201cYoung People\u2019s Poet Laureate\u201d of the Poetry Foundation. According to her Poetry Foundation bio, she was born in 1952, making her about 69 years old. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/naomi-shihab-nye\">bio<\/a> states that \u201cher father was a Palestinian refugee\u201d and she became \u201can active voice for Arab Americans\u201d after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Poetry Foundation\u2019s funding comes largely from a gift of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2004-02-15\/a-philanthropist-of-the-old-school\">stock<\/a> in the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company from heiress Ruth Lilly. Eli Lilly does not manufacture the coronavirus vaccine, but has manufactured other vaccines, including for polio.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.lilly.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/lilly-announces-additional-doses-neutralizing-antibody-therapy\">said<\/a> \u201cThe U.S. government has agreed to purchase a minimum of 100,000 doses\u201d of a COVID treatment, bamlanivimab and etesevimab, for $210 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Poetry Foundation seemingly shifted its focus to racial grievance after receiving demands that led to the resignation of its president and board chairman. Its sin was releasing a statement that said the organizations\u2019 leaders \u201cstand in solidarity with the Black community, and denounce injustice and systemic racism.\u201d Critics said that was insufficiently enthusiastic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/insanity-at-the-poetry-foundation\/\">National Review<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Poets who had received grants from the organization, and others with only peripheral connections to it, issued a letter with \u201cdemands\u201d including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe President must be replaced by someone with a demonstrated commitment to\u2026 creating a world that is just and affirming for people of color, disabled people, trans people, queer people, and immigrants.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The organization must acknowledge \u201cthe harm done in recent years to Latinx poets, trans poets, disabled poets, and queer poets.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It must provide a \u201cgreater allocation of financial resources toward work which is explicitly anti-racist in nature\u201d such as \u201clarge contributions to organizations such as Assata\u2019s Daughters, Brave Space Alliance, and Project South.\u201d It is unclear what connection those groups have to poetry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They simultaneously said that poets have access to well-paying jobs, and also that the Foundation \u2014 which they acknowledged pays poets well \u2014 should give away all of its money.<\/p>\n<p>On April 28, it hired Michelle T. Boone, a black woman who previously served as commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, as its new president, the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-poetry-philanthropy-race-and-ethnicity-arts-and-entertainment-8af88f7cac79dfce5744df807d3eac2f\">AP<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Vaccine Poem project says it is a collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and The University of Arizona Poetry Center.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i>&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some schoolchildren are being instructed to write poems fawning over the coronavirus vaccine, which they are not eligible to receive but which teachers unions have claimed, without evidence, is necessary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313073,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1222148080-school-coronavirus-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Children Assigned To Write Love Poems To Coronavirus Vaccine As Teachers Union Pushes For Continued Restrictions","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1222148080-school-coronavirus-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Children Assigned To Write Love Poems To Coronavirus Vaccine As Teachers Union Pushes For Continued Restrictions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}